POLISCI 391AP Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Stakeholder Analysis, Bracero Program, Transnationalism

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLISCI 391AP
• Professor: B L I N D E R

Document Summary

Issues arising: unauthorized immigrant population grows, preference for family, not skills, refugees conflicting pressures from foreign policy (executive branch) and immigration policy logics (legislature, long-term demographic changes. Security frame, with concrete results: fence built, border patrol expands, dhs takes authority for immigration. Unauthorized population grows, until 2008: growing pressure from multiple perspectives for political resolutions, legislative gridlock executive action (daca, executive action judicial reaction (dapa) 50%+ from mexico, others from central america and asia. Concentrated in california, texas, florida, new york, illinois. 11 million+ (estimated number: number rose drastically into the 2000s (about 2008), then dipped slightly. Work day labor, construction, textiles, service sector, smaller firms/informal economy. Not so(cid:272)iall(cid:455) segregated, (cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:455) fa(cid:373)ilies (cid:449)ith (cid:862)(cid:373)i(cid:454)ed status(cid:863) Elements of comprehensive immigration reform (desipio ch. A(cid:373)eri(cid:272)a (cid:449)e"(cid:448)e gro(cid:449)(cid:374) up i(cid:374) is a product of 1965 immigration & nationality act. Growing cultural and political power of latino and asian american population. More geographic diversity, but concentrations in major cities and border counties.